Editorial Eland
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Jigsaw
An Unsentimental Education
- Eland, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-79-8
EAN 9780907871798
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German chateau for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French ...
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"Voices of the Old Sea" is Lewis' masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends ...
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a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos x{0026} Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, ranged against the French colonial powers, and ...
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- Eland, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-906011-50-5
EAN 9781906011505
The wittiest introduction to the life of a social anthropologist ever written. Studying in the Cameroons for his first experience of fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline. Although set amongst a little-known tribe in the Cameroons, this slim volume reaches out ...
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Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the medieval state of Morocco at the end of the 19th century. This is the epic story of the more than 50 years in which they governed the country in barbaric, ostentatious splendor, until their spectacular downfall ...
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The Island that Dared
Journeys in Cuba
"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio of young girls and their mother soon find themselves camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars with only crabs and mosquitoes for company. ...
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- Eland, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 604 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906011-11-6
EAN 9781906011116
Through a dialogue between two lovers, a young physicist in England and an anthropologist in Germany, Nicholas Mosely retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. The destructive power and attraction of fascism and communism is unveiled and set against the changing relationship between man and science in the time of atomic power. ...
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- Eland, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-49-1
EAN 9780907871491
The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare by Kafka. The 'scum of the earth' are those heroic individuals, like Koestler himself, who had fought the tide of fascism and come to live in liberal ...
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- Eland, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-74-3
EAN 9780907871743
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- Eland, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-04-0
EAN 9780907871040
Mungo Park's account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. Though he failed in the object of his mission to chart the course of the Niger River he succeeded in leaving a unique record of everyday life ...
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Richard Burton's life offers dazzling riches. He was one of the greatest Victorian explorers, an innovative translator and brilliant linguist, a prolific travel writer, a pioneer in the fields of anthropology and sexual psychology, a mesmeric lover, a spy and a publisher of erotica. Fawn Brodie has created a vivid portrait of this remarkable man, ...
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- Eland, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-72-9
EAN 9780907871729
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- Eland, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 332 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-82-8
EAN 9780907871828
A story of Irfan Orga's family's survival.
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- Eland, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-907871-77-4
EAN 9780907871774
Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and ...
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